Dragon Ball’s Bardock spin-off gets anime!

Production of an anime adaptation of Dragon Ball Episode of Bardock, theDragon Ball spinoff manga that Naho Ōishi serialized in Shueisha‘s V Jump magazine in three installments earlier this year, has been green-lit. The anime is part of the launch of the “Dragon Ball Force Project.”

The Dragon Ball Episode of Bardock manga was inspired by Akira Toriyama‘s original Dragon Ball manga and the Dragon Ball Z Special 1: Bardock, The Father of Goku television special that aired in 1990. The spinoff manga follows a side story about Bardock, the father of the extraterrestrial Saiyan child who would be known as Son Goku. The manga ran from June to August of this year.